On Monday the council’s environment committee is being asked
to approve a new domestic waste collection strategy which has the aim of
ensuring compliance with the Waste (Scotland) Regulations 2012 and meeting new
targets for recycling which are 60% of household waste by 2020 and 70% of all
waste by 2025. Included in the measures being proposed are changing the
weekly residual waste (grey wheelie bin) collection to a fortnightly
collection.
The strategy will be implemented city wide in six phases over
2 years. A large part of Broughty Ferry is in the first phase which will commence
later in 2014. As part of the implementation
an extensive programme of public engagement will be carried out at each implementation
stage.
The service that people will receive is a bin for paper,
card, metals and plastics that will be collected 2 weekly, a bin for glass that
will be collected 4 weekly, a bin for garden waste that will be collected
either 2 weekly or 4 weekly depending on the season, a container for food waste that will be collected weekly and the current grey wheelie bin for residual
waste will be collected 2 weekly. Flatted properties
will receive services appropriate to the housing type with varied collection methods.
I attended a briefing on the proposal given by the director of the environment
department and I have asked some questions in advance of Monday’s meeting. While supportive
of measures that improve recycling rates I have some concerns about these changes,
particularly the loss of the weekly residual waste collection. I would be interested
to hear what residents think.
